A 59-second animated short called "No Ordinary Love" went viral on X this week. The tracking account @vibezdotclub put it first in its October 28 list of the day's five most watched AI videos. The creator, antrofrog (@antrofrog_), posted it on October 28. By about 2 PM PT on October 29, X counted roughly 12.7 million impressions on the post, with about 163,000 likes, 41,000 bookmarks, 19,000 reposts and close to 1,900 quote posts.
Many viewers thought it was hand-drawn. It was not. That gap, plus a second argument about the story itself, is why the replies split so hard. Here is what the short is, how the creator says it was made, and what people are saying.
What the short shows
The video has no dialogue. It plays over Sade's 1992 song "No Ordinary Love". A tall man in a black suit keeps trying to win over a woman in a red dress on the streets of a rainy city with a red phone box and a bus shelter. He slides down an escalator handrail after her, offers a flower from a window box, and stands inside a heart of pigeons. In the rain he holds an umbrella over her. In the last shot the two walk away together, and she carries a red umbrella.
The look is flat 2D with painted backgrounds, closer to a classic studio cartoon than to the glossy 3D style many AI clips have. The creator later named the two characters in a follow-up post, "George & Gina".
How it was made
In a reply under the video, antrofrog listed the tools:
- George's character design: Midjourney 8.2
- Gina's character design: Krea 3
- Animation: Seedance 2.5
- "Made on @krea_ai"
So the characters started as still images, and ByteDance's video model animated them. If you want the model details, see our Seedance 2.5 explainer and our Krea 3 explainer.
The creator's X bio reads "an artist with zero skills / so I just use AI". That line became part of the fight. The account had about 13,700 followers when we checked, and earlier posts show the same stack. In October antrofrog wrote that "every single message I got on this topic I replied with my exact tools which are Midjourney 8.2 and Seedance 2.5, guess what the next question was?"
The case against: "who'd you steal it from"
Two widely liked critical quote posts went after the idea that this is art at all.
- @CapsirusYT: "Pretty cool character designs, who'd you steal it from". X showed about 80,000 likes and 1.8 million impressions on that post. It points at the common complaint that image models learn from artists' work without consent.
- @ennigtna: "don't call yourself an artist on your bio if you only know how to use AI, idiot". That post had about 39,000 likes.
- @imustbemeeeee questioned the response, not the tools: "137k likes for something so unmoving?" The creator replied: "and growing".
The timing offered a contrast. Prada's Holiday 2026 campaign "combines real-life action with a world of hand-drawn animation and characters, realized with old-school techniques from the golden era of cartoons," Prada wrote on X. antrofrog reposted that campaign the next day.
The case for: "It takes skill"
Supporters said the tools are not the whole story.
- @drizzzleshine: "Bet if I gave you Midjourney, Krea and Seedance, your pea-sized brain still wouldn't imagine this up. AI doesn't magically produce this level of consistency and execution. It takes skill."
- @MindMechanical, who says they also make things with AI, took a middle line: "it's fine to have the moral position that you don't want AI." But "Claiming it to be because of quality is just getting untenable. This has a few inconsistencies but it's a pleasant short film."
- @Uvacha_ai looked at craft choices: "No dialogue, and the 2D style hides the flaws of ai video. This is where the medium needs to shift."
That last point is worth noting for creators. In our view, a wordless 2D short skips lip sync entirely and keeps motion simple, which plays to what current video models handle well. antrofrog has noted limits in earlier work: "It's still hard to get accurate interactions with an object even with the new Seedance 2.5," the creator posted in September.
The other fight: is the story romantic?
Many reactions had nothing to do with AI. Quote posts in English, French, Portuguese and Arabic argued about the man's behavior.
- @user836251818 wrote in French, "ma vision de l'amour c'est ça mais vous êtes trop insecure" (roughly: "this is my vision of love, but you are all too insecure"). It had about 45,000 likes.
- @draydraydray20 disagreed, also in French. In our translation: "Clowning around for a woman who just receives and gives (almost) nothing back? That will never be me. Either you're in it at the same level as me, or we drop it."
- Others called the pursuit harassment. @CaketasticNero wrote in Portuguese that for men, harassment is "tipo um romance" ("like a romance"). A reply, also in Portuguese, shot back that the two literally end up together at the end. Some replies in this thread were openly hostile, and we are not linking the worst of them.
This matters for AI video because it shows a clip being judged as a story, not only as a tech demo. People argued about the characters the way they argue about any short film.
What it means for AI video creators
- One person can now ship a short that reads as studio work. Spanish-language creator @larsholst_ summed it up this way (our translation): one person with the right tools "can now put out something that used to need a whole studio team." He put impressions at 9.7 million after one day; antrofrog replied "10M actually".
- Style choice is a quality choice. The short leans on what current models do well. Our Kling 4.0 Minibots story covers a team taking AI animation to feature length.
- Disclosure does not end the argument. The tools were named within two minutes of posting, and the bio says AI. The backlash came anyway. Founder @SRKDAN wrote that the short "looked so hand-drawn that X added a community note saying it was AI," and added, "I still think hand-drawn work is about to become the luxury."
- Expect both crowds in your replies. The same post drew about 163,000 likes and sharp criticism.
We will update this post if the creator shares more about the workflow, such as prompts, shot count or editing.
Sources
- antrofrog, "No Ordinary Love" (X, Oct 28, 2026)
- antrofrog, tool credits reply (X)
- antrofrog, "George & Gina" (X)
- antrofrog on tool questions (X, Oct 13)
- antrofrog on Seedance 2.5 object interactions (X, Sept 12)
- @CapsirusYT quote post (X)
- @ennigtna quote post (X)
- @imustbemeeeee quote post (X)
- @drizzzleshine quote post (X)
- @MindMechanical quote post (X)
- @Uvacha_ai quote post (X)
- @user836251818 quote post (X)
- @CaketasticNero quote post (X)
- @vibezdotclub top AI videos, Oct 28 (X)
- @draydraydray20 quote post (X)
- @larsholst_ post (X)
- @SRKDAN post (X)
- Prada Holiday 2026 campaign post (X)
- No Ordinary Love (Sade song), Wikipedia
